Category: Features

Reflections of Rebecca

  • June 28, 2013

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The intention of this column has always been to recall the lost or forgotten voices of horror, to remember those writers who, for whatever reason, have become forgotten or overlooked with the passing of time. But what I want to consider this month are the characters who are overlooked or forgotten within their texts, marginalised …

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Rejection Letters – How to Write and Respond to Them

  • June 28, 2013

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Greetings gentle reader, before we get down to the business of this month’s column, I’d like to tell you a horror story. A real life horror story. Keep on reading…

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Zombies, Zombies, Zombies!

  • June 26, 2013

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With the UK release of World War Z imminent, and the US Encyclopedia of the Zombie forthcoming (that I’ve written some essays for, namely on Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce, Hammer’s Plague of the Zombies and the Phantasm series of films), I’ve been on a bit of a zombie movie re-watch recently. The zombie has always been …

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Black Static and its importance to women horror writers

  • June 17, 2013

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The first copy of The Third Alternative (as it then was) that I ever bought was Issue 19, Spring 1999. I was in the Oxford Circus branch of Borders (now sadly defunct), looking for magazines of new horror fiction, not knowing if such a thing even existed. Keep on reading…

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